-Buy something that is used and with no clear written guarantee it works (Newton, Airport card, vinyl).
-Send money from Denmark
-In an ordinary envelope
-Ask seller to sent it in uninsured USPS letter/package to Denmark.
Can anyone imagine how many steps can go wrong in that? And double the risk because the seller can claim it happened (money lost on the way to him, item lost on the way to me, item broken because of the handling etc etc etc)
How many times has this gone wrong? zero out of perhaps thirty times.
But then again I am the kind of guy who drops his credit card by accident and always get it back unused (nine times. One time it was sent to me before I realised it was missing) and always find his stolen bike a few days later (two times with my current bike)
Power to the naive blue eyed people
I hear that. I'm such a ditz but extraordinarily lucky it seems. That's why I always return things to people. It's a circle.
Earthlink has been having the same problem. I've gotten warnings about it, and received a fraudulent e-mail with almost the exact wording as the Paypal deal. I clicked the link, it went to an unsecure generic IP address with official Earthlink banners.
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Originally posted by Cake
Did you get a reply from PayPal?
I forwarded them a fake email that I received and PayPal got back to me that same day:
That's an autoreply. I've gotten it many times.
You'll get a followup in a few days confirming that it's indeed a spoof and not an official PayPal mailing, etc.
Here is how I do eBay:
-Buy something that is used and with no clear written guarantee it works (Newton, Airport card, vinyl).
-Send money from Denmark
-In an ordinary envelope
-Ask seller to sent it in uninsured USPS letter/package to Denmark.
Can anyone imagine how many steps can go wrong in that? And double the risk because the seller can claim it happened (money lost on the way to him, item lost on the way to me, item broken because of the handling etc etc etc)
How many times has this gone wrong? zero out of perhaps thirty times.
But then again I am the kind of guy who drops his credit card by accident and always get it back unused (nine times. One time it was sent to me before I realised it was missing) and always find his stolen bike a few days later (two times with my current bike)
Power to the naive blue eyed people
I hear that. I'm such a ditz but extraordinarily lucky it seems. That's why I always return things to people. It's a circle.
Jeff